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vegan. teacher. opinionated. loves books, shoes, hanson, ‘the amazing race’, the 80s, ‘waiting for guffman’, mid-afternoon naps, musicals and breakfast cereal. four cats. one redhead. hi.

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I don’t think I can say it enough. I love Ikea. With the exception of about three things, our entire house is has been furnished by the good company of Sweden. Some of my favorite new purchases include this lamp and these chairs. In red, of course.

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I bought this book: Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional by Simon Collison with a gift card over the summer. It’s fantastic! I am a complete novice with this sort of thing, but I’m learning quickly thanks to this book. Thanks to Collison, I’ll never forget to top center my background image again.

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If you like playing with color and color palettes, you’ll love this site - Colour Lovers. I’m playing with a blog redesign right now and it’s the perfect place to create a palette. Fun!

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My friend Chel’s Gus and Stuff website and blog. “It’s all about being creative.”

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Watch Penn Jillette share his thoughts on topics from Garth Brooks to atheism to freedom fighting princesses. Excellent stuff, here.

From the entry 'Resolutions for 2010', Karen Hutson said:

Danielle and Tony:

Happy New Year! I think of you both often. Have made the transition to vegetarianism. Maybe vegan one day. It’s a process. I love the challenge to be creative and the health benefits as well. Come to Austin and visit me sometime.
Karen

From the entry 'Just Say No', Fran said:

Regarding “sleeps,” is “1-2-3 seepies”
still okay? I am going to keep saying it
no matter what!

From the entry 'An Update!', andrea said:

Okay, so I am coming to this way late, but I just wanted to commiserate on the Money Pit situation. We are considering selling our house next year just to avoid putting in a new roof and furnace. I know I don’t want to stay in this house for another five or so years, so I know we’d never get our money back (we’d have to finance those repairs). Well, there are other reasons why we want to sell but those are big ones. As it stands now we have a huge To Do list just to get the house ready to show. Ugh.

Congrats on the new job too.

From the entry 'My Letter to Ralph Macchio', Fran said:

Hey, Deebers,

GREAT letter! But I was shocked to see the notebook paper with FIVE HOLES! At a Catholic school? No wonder you Mount Saint Joe’s/Joe Paradox chicks were completely out of control!

I would still love to do a little “wax on wax off” with Ralph Macchio.

Fran

From the entry 'My Letter to Ralph Macchio', Anita said:

^what he said!

Since when does placement on a Do Not Call list mean getting calls from the same telemarketer ten (no, I’m not exaggerating) times a day? Since today, apparently. So after the tenth call and two cups of coffee, this is what they get.

“Hello, Danielle?”

“YES. WHAT.”

“This is BlahDeeBlah from Chase Services.”

“YOU HAVE CALLED HERE LIKE TEN TIMES TODAY. WHY ARE YOU CALLING HERE TEN TIMES TODAY? I AM ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST. STOP CALLING HERE.”

“I’m calling to offer you...”

“I DO NOT WANT WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE OFFERING ME. STOP CALLING HERE. STOP. STOP CALLING. STOP NOW. I AM ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST. SO STOP CALLING. ARE YOU GOING TO STOP CALLING?”

“...”

“PUT ME ON YOUR DO NOT CALL LIST AND SO THAT MEANS DO NOT CALL HERE. EVER. AGAIN. DO NOT CALL HERE. STOP CALLING HERE. I KNOW YOU ARE JUST DOING YOUR JOB BUT STOP IT. STOP CALLING. STOP IT. NEVER CALL HERE AGAIN. AM I ON YOUR DO NOT CALL LIST?”

“yes”

‘GOODBYE.”